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Do institutions evolve like material technologies?

2024-05-15

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<p>Norms and institutions enable large-scale human cooperation by creating shared expectations and changing individuals’ incentives via monitoring or sanctioning. Like material technologies, these social technologies satisfy instrumental ends and solve difficult problems. However, the similarities and differences between the evolution of material technologies and the evolution of social technologies remain unresol...

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Literature Corpus work: 640bee7e-d900-570f-a5f2-b5467bfb9803
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/3uy7b

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